| Pub | Comments | Location |
| Albion Hotel |
Closed.
Not visited.
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Albion Street / Mount Road
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| Anchorage |
Closed. Night club.
Not visited.
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Marine Promenade / Waterloo Road |
| Bobby's |
A plain but pleasant modern plastic bar. The food looks good. Tables in the courtyard at the front for when the weather is good.
Now closed.
Last visited 2004.
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Marine Promenade / Waterloo Road
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Bow-Legged Beagle
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This small friendly micro-pub serves excellent ale, craft and cask. Highly recommended and always popular.
Last visited December 2024.
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Victoria Road / Windsor Street
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Clarence Hotel
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A splendid wood panelled and fake beam interior (in contrast with the plainer exterior) in this very popular two bar food-oriented pub. People were queuing for tables in the separate dining area when I visited on a Sunday afternoon in 1999. A subsequent visit on a Thursday afternoon in 2018 found it empty but still serving excellent real ale. The menu looks good, and good value.
On a Sunday in 2024 I found they no longer do food, and there were only a handful of customers. The ale continues to be great.
Last visited September 2024.
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89 Albion Street / Meadow Street
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| Club Royale (Chelsea Beach) (Royal Ferry) |
Night Club.
Now closed.
Not visited.
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Victoria Parade / Marine Promenade
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| D'Arcy's (D'Arcy Monaghan's) |
Now closed.
Not visited.
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Marine Promenade / Rowson Street
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Harbour (Commercial)
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A tiny bar side looking a little tatty in this street corner local. There's also a small, comfortable, well cared for lounge to the rear, with bell pushes for waitress service. The Commercial was a Cain's pub when I visited in 2006. Returning in 2012 I found the brewery connection had gone, but little else had changed apart, perhaps, for a coat of paint. The barmaid advised me that the shortest route from the bar side to the gents is via the street.
In recent years I have noted very limited opening hours here.
Last visited 2012.
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Grosvenor Road / Hope Street
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Homebrew Tap
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Opened in 2020, this member of a small chain of micro-pubs is a standard shop conversion, actually two shops knocked through.
Last visited April 2022.
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Victoria Road
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James Atherton (Railway) (James Atherton) (Three Bellends) (Two Helmets)
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The Railway had a well looked after interior in a large two bar pub with friendly locals. The hand pump was not in use when I visited. There was no access between the plain bar side and the pleasant lounge side.
Noted closed in 2018, it re-opened, well refurbished, under its new name in 2019.
Renamed (temporarily) as The Three Bellends in October 2020 to protest the Government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, with signs depicting Johnson, Cummings and Hancock. As the James Atherton (and also the Two Helmets, on a similar theme) post-lockdown they are serving quality real ale.
Last visited July 2023.
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Victoria Road / Grosvenor Road
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Little Brighton Inn
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The pretty, traditional two-sided interior is very well cared for. The small beer yard has an aviary. When I visited on a Wednesday afternoon the pub was empty. Noted shut in 2014 and derelict more recently.
Last visited 2004.
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Rowson Street / Mount Pleasant Road
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Magazine
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A very nice friendly multi-roomed pub with low ceiling timbers, serving a wonderful pint of Bass and other excellent real ales.
Last visited November 2023.
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Magazine Brow
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| Nag's Head |
A pleasant well cared for pub with one knocked through room. The standard plastic decor matches the standard plastic ales. Pool table.
Closed and demolished.
Last visited 2004.
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Rake Lane / Osborne Avenue
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New Brighton Hotel (Peggy Gadfly's) (Stag)
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Peggy Gadfly's: One hand-pump not in use in this dark atmospheric wooden-floored Irish-style pub which has a number of rooms but only one counter.
Eighteen years later, I found the New Brighton Hotel was brightly and pleasantly decorated. The handpumps were still not in use. The exterior artwork is very impressive.
Last visited 2021.
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Victoria Parade / Mason Street
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| Oceans |
Night club.
Not visited.
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Marine Promenade / Waterloo Road |
| Old Tavern Club |
Closed and demolished.
Not visited.
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Magazine Lane / Greenbank Avenue
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Perch Rock
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One compact bar room at the front plus a two or three room lounge part with waitress bell pushes (not in use) and no counter. The entrance lobby has a nice "Yates's Manchester Ales" mosaic in the floor. The cask John Smith's was undrinkable when I came here in 1999 - no wonder all the regulars were ordering "smoothflow". On multiple subsequent visits I have enjoyed excellent ale here.
A reliable source of quality ales, usually including Landlord, and at a bargain price too, this pub is deservedly popular.
Last visited July 2023.
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Hope Street / Grosvenor Road
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Phoenix Bar
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This short-lived shop conversion is now closed.
Not visited.
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Rake Lane / Princess Road
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Pilot Boat
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The interior of this pleasant pub serving decent ale is nicely done. The menu looks good.
Last visited 2018.
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Mariners Road / Magazine Brow
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Redcaps
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A nice interior with a wooden floor in one bar plus side and back rooms. The large front windows afford a view of the street and the fort and water beyond. The three hand pumps were not in use when I visited. Closed when I passed in September 2006.
Last visited 2003.
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Marine Promenade / Victoria Road
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Rockpoint Records
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A rather good music-themed bar.
Last visited December 2024.
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Victoria Road / Windsor Street
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Sandridge
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A pleasant, friendly and comfortable two-sided boozer.
Last visited November 2023.
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Rowson Street / Cardigan Road
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Seahorse
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This member of Greene King's Hungry Horse chain has a pleasant modern open interior. Despite being firmly targeted at dining families they usually serve a decent pint of real ale.
Last visited 2020.
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Marine Point
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Ship Hotel
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A large split level traditional two-sided boozer, busy with cheerful regulars. The pleasant decor is well looked after.
Last visited December 2024.
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Victoria Parade / Virginia Road
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Stage Door Tap
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This is the hotel bar in the Queens Royal hotel, not a pub, but it is an excellent bar with friendly staff serving quality real ales. Nicely decorated and well cared for inside with some good plasterwork on the ceiling. The menu looks good.
Now closed.
Last visited 2017.
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Marine Promenade / Rowson Street
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Stanley's Cask
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A pleasant friendly local pub, very well decorated and serving excellent real ale.
Last visited November 2023.
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Rake Lane / Osborne Avenue
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Sup
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Opened in 2020, this is a comfortable shop conversion offering two craft beers on draught.
Last visited December 2024.
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Atherton Street / Victoria Road
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Tallulahs Emporium (Corner)
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This impressive building used to be a bank.
A very pleasant two-roomed bar serving a good selection of keg beers.
Last visited November 2023.
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Rowson Street / Victoria Road
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Telegraph
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They serve fine beer in this very nice traditional multi-room pub with a pleasant open modern extension. The large beer garden is full of tables.
Last visited November 2023.
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Mount Pleasant Road / Sandrock Road
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| Traveller's Rest |
A rather nice wood panelled interior to this one roomed corner house hidden behind D'Arcy Monaghan's. Popular with locals.
Now closed.
Last visited 1999.
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Rowson Street / Wellington Road
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| Victoria |
Closed and demolished.
Not visited.
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Albion Street / Portland Street
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| Wetherspoon's The Master Mariner (RJ's) (Playa$ Lounge) |
This pleasant, busy, smaller than average Wetherspoon's has featured better than average service on my visits, and the food was good.
A substantial expansion into the building next door was started in 2022 and the pub was closed "until August 2022". This work has been abandoned and the pub is permanently closed.
Last visited 2021.
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Marine Promenade / Waterloo Road
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